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Dual monitor issue on radeon 5870

02-06-2011, 09:09 AM

im using dual monitors on kubuntu 10.10 with catalyst 11.1 and everytime i close a wine game and sometimes native games the second monitor shutsdown and i have to restart the computer to get it back on so i would appreciate any tips on perhaps fix this and im not seeing any errors or warnings in xorg log file

Both wine and some native games use an ancient X.org extension for modesetting. That extension is so old, it has no clue about multiple monitors whatsoever.

The real fix would be to get wine or the games ported to XrandR. The ugly workaround would be to run games in windowed mode. The quick workaround would be to write a small bash script for your app, like